IV: Charles Manson

[Max Nemtsov]

remember The Spring for Hitler in The Producers?
that's it, all over again
i thought only russia has gone mad recently, but no, it's contagious

On 21.09.2014 10:16, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
>
> But this Thalia Theater is not seated "in America", it once was an 
> European temple of art.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalia_Theater_%28Hamburg%29
>
> > The *Thalia Theater* is one of the three state-owned theatres in 
> Hamburg <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg>, Germany 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany>. It was founded in 1843 by 
> Charles Maurice Schwartzenberger 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Maurice_Schwartzenberger&action=edit&redlink=1> 
> and named after the muse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse> Thalia 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalia_%28muse%29>. Today, it is home to 
> one of Germany's most famous ensembles and stages around 9 new plays 
> per season.<
>
> On 20.09.2014 12:51, Mark Kohut wrote:
>> everything in America can be turned into a musical. ----BLEEDING 
>> EDGE, paraphrase, I'm sure.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 20, 2014, at 4:58 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen 
>> <lorentzen at hotmail.de <mailto:lorentzen at hotmail.de>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Panem et circenses ... I won't go there.
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>   Charles Manson: Summer of Hate – The Musical
>>>   A musical trip between L.A. and the Death Valley
>>>   Directed by Stefan Pucher
>>>
>>>
>>> *Charles Manson – the name is synonymous with an American nightmare. 
>>> While Woodstock was celebrating the ‘summer of love’ in 1969, Manson 
>>> became a gravedigger, condemning his followers to brutal ritualistic 
>>> murders in the Hollywood Hills. *
>>> Lesser known than the demonic seducer is the failed musician Charles 
>>> Manson. After spending half his life in prison, Manson emerged onto 
>>> San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury scene in 1967, before travelling to 
>>> Los Angeles, the economic and cultural epi-centre of pop culture 
>>> towards the end of the Sixties. Manson’s ‘Family’, a commune of 
>>> young, predominantly female outcasts from prosperous America, saw 
>>> many stars come in and out – greats of the music scene including 
>>> Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, Neil Young and producer Terry 
>>> Melcher all sponsored the charismatic singer songwriter.  The sexual 
>>> availability of his female followers and drugs served not only as 
>>> currency for access to Hollywood royalty, but were also Manson’s 
>>> most important instrument of power within the ‘Family’. While his 
>>> music career failed, as ‘band leader’ he experienced similar 
>>> adoration to a pop star. When he relocated the core ‘Family’ to a 
>>> disused Western movie ranch in Death Valley, Manson and his 
>>> followers prepared themselves for ‘Helter Skelter’, the final race 
>>> war that Manson believed was foretold in detail in The Beatles’ 
>>> ‘White Album’.
>>>
>>> *Director Stefan Pucher stages a musical trip between L.A. and the 
>>> Death Valley, hippy ideals and the death cult, the excesses of rock 
>>> star life and the means of finding food from the rubbish bins of 
>>> American civilisation.*
>>>
>>> *World premiere on 26th September at Thalia Theater*
>>>
>

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